What is a good keynote?

I really enjoyed the very good keynote of Christian Klezl (Vice President and Cloud Leader of IBM Northeast Europe). This keynote contained everything I expect from a keynote: Good slides, good body language, interesting information, and a structured presentation which never becomes boring. Good job!

A Keynote as Skype Call?

The last keynote was ridicolous: It should be presented via a Skype call! No joke…

So I am glad that they had technical problems. They tried for 15 minutes to resolve the problems, but finally this keynote was not presented.

In my opinion, a keynote via Skype is an absolute No-Go 🙁

What is your Opinion?

I think an extra blog entry is worthy, because I really wanna state that I hope this will not happen again – and I do not mean the technical problems, but the idea to present a keynote via skype… (Remember that the visitors paid about 1000 Euros to participate! Not including traveling costs)

And please dont get me wrong: I really like webinars! I often watch them when I wanna see for example a presentation of a product. But that is not appropriate at an IT conference!

So what so you think about keynotes or presentations in general at IT conferences via Skype (i.e. as webinar)?